Hey everyone! I bet you guys weren’t expecting this post huh? I’m supposed to be on vacation. Well, I am. This has been pre-typed.

Initially I wanted to come up with 3 posts but well, I procrastinated. So I couldn’t finish the story which was supposed to make its world debut wth but I didn’t want to rush it. I couldn’t think of the right words to use because the story was supposed to be like a series with lots of chapters in it so yeah, we’ll see how that goes.

The three posts were supposed to roughly symbolize the three types of posts that I’ll be posting on my new blog. There’s this one, which is probably just a recap of what has happened in a day/ a week and is totally random and does not really have a main idea to it.

The other type would be the fictional one, which I just mentioned but that hasn’t worked out yet.

The third type is coming soon *grand music wth* and it’s well, about an event. Any event for that matter. It’s scheduled to be published very soon so do check back for more updates hehehe. And sorry I got too long-winded with that post. Because I was typing it really quickly and didn’t really have time to edit so there’s lots of RAW WORDS. I think most people would be skipping lines or some might even just look at the photos and leave. Oh well! That’s life.

So it just struck 1 am and my flight’s at 8 am which means I’ll have less than 6 hours of sleep. But oh well, my biological clock’s screwed anyway since I’ve been sleeping at 2 am almost everyday so I’m not feeling sleepy yet.

I’m excited about this trip but at the same time I’m not that excited due to some circumstances la. I will discuss them next time but I’ll try not to expect anything and just throw myself out there for whatever’s to come.

Ooh! And I have plans for this new blog! Hope you guys like it and thanks for the comments so far. Really appreciate them Keep them coming and don’t worry about the comment moderation thingy. As long as you’re not cursing me or blatantly criticizing me without any substance, the comments will definitely appear

Anyway, I’m planning to add 2 more pages to this blog. There are two now as you can see below the headers. There’s ‘Home’ and ‘About Me’. I might be editing the ‘About Me’ section because I am very long-winded and wordy and boring and capable of writing very long self descriptions when I’m not being limited by the word count. I think you should already know by now.

One of the pages would probably be ‘My Twisted Family’ which will include my very complicated family tree that started among us Monashians. Up to this stage, Dan is my mom, Pat is my baby bro, Stella’s my sis, Evonne’s my sister-in-law (married to Pat with no kids YET) and Hans is my long-lost dad, who also had an affair with my baby bro, Pat. Yes it’s totally complicated but utterly interesting imo so I’ll be starting a page on that! For those interested to be in the family tree please drop me a comment la and say which part of the family you want to be. And Jo, are you still the maid? Hahahaha Oh well. Give me the updated family tree okay??? I’m quite clueless here. Suddenly Niyi said Pat is her bitch the other day so I’m so so so blur like sotong now wth.

Another page to add would be ‘The Dramatic-Ness Charts’ hehehe which I kind of started back in my old blog but then it was never official. I’m still thinking if I should be the judge or should I start a poll…?? hmmmmm.. I think I should just be the judge la so that I can always be on top of the charts everyone will be satisfied hehehe.

There’s so much more that I want to say but I’m just looking for the right time. But then again, the right time might never come. So it’s probably a hint that I shouldn’t say some things.

Okay the next paragraph is to my fellow Monashians so the rest can just skip it if you don’t wanna read hehe.

One last thing before I go to bed, I was thinking maybe we should have an adventure around KL? I mean, hop on the KTM or the monorail and take some random bus (not exactly random but any bus would do) to wherever they bring us to??? Away from the hustle and bustle of the traffic with so many cars on the road, each honking like mad because no one’s moving. IS ANYONE UP FOR THAT?? IT DOES SOUND VERY INTERESTING DOESN’T IT?? PLEASE SAY YES AND I SHALL DEDICATE A WHOLE BLOG POST JUST FOR YOU. When we really go on that adventure, that is! OKAY OKAY OKAY? We can do it the day before uni starts again!! It’ll be a lot of fun, won’t it?

I’ve been typing too much again. But I enjoyed typing it so hope you enjoyed reading what I typed hehehe. That’s all, for now!

Cya!

XOXO

Ok starting with some recognition wth

For my birthday:

1st person to call me: Loh Ghee Vui

1st person to call me AND wish me happy birthday: Kaarthik (was quite shocked too!)

1st person to text me: Melanie (at 00.00.24 not bad huh)

1st person to sing me ‘Happy Birthday’: Loh Ghee Vui on the phone

Weirdest message: Forbidden Kingdom nice show la. Jst watched it. =) from Jarret (WTH WTH WTH WTH WTH!!)

Funniest message: Happy b’day!!! may all yr wishes come true. finally u are of legal age.no need 2 sneak into cinemas nemore. haha..happy 18th ya. from Wai Beng

Most memorable: I’m 20years old but my conscience just turned 18. ah well. haha.. from Dan

Yes I keep ALL MY BIRTHDAY MESSAGES.

I wanted to reply all the messages on the card as well but oh well, don’t think you guys would remember what you’ve written anyway right?

Brrrr Looking at the photos kind of sets me back from blogging about the birthday dinner. Buh oh well, since I’ve uploaded all the photos and meticulously pasted and resized each and every photo, I might as well just get it over and done with.

So after the marination, JC sent me back to the hostel (thanks JC!) to my very shocked roommate who probably thought a giant puked on me. (I had to run past the guards and luckily I didn’t need to wait so long for the lift.) I showered, washed my hair THREE TIMES and changed all my clothes and also the venue for the dinner hehehehe. Sorry bout that guys. Especially to Jun Yet and Rachel who had to take a cab to MidValley.

At first I wanted to have dinner at TGIF so they suggested the one at Pyramid so EVERYONE went there to wait for me. And then I decided I was too bored of Pyramid so suggested that we went to MidValley instead. Thank goodness they agreed!

Forgot that I was the king of the day. Should have suggested like The Palace of Golden Horses or something. After all, they egged me pretty badly.

But we couldn’t find TGIF so we settled for Chili’s instead (which is better than TGIF imho). I think we had to wait around 30 minutes to get a table because there were around/almost 20 of us and no reservations had been made beforehand. Then they put us at the VERY VERY VERY back and even covered us up from civilization wth.

Adnan and I. Adnan had to leave early for a blind date. Seriously.

Grace’s chicken chop. Or was it fish and chips. Hahahaha. Doesn’t look too good but I’m pretty sure it was pretty good.

Nick’s burger. It looks.. err.. perfectly round. hahaha. *laughs at own description wth* Is that the best I can come up with??

Evonne and I looking very happy. I think I was feeding someone mashed potatoes. I looooooove the mashed potatoes there! So mushy and creamy. LOL

Jarret the spoiler, Joanne Yim (whom I met for the first time, when I was getting egged. what a great occasion to meet some new huh?), Christine (who was writing my card!), Niyi TheExtremelyLame and Jo TheMaidSweetheart

Me and Jun Yet. And Grace’s hand. =.=

Stella the Sister, Dan the Mom, Grace the Friend, Nick the BFF.O2, Ali the Favourite Iraqi wth

Thanks for the card!! I love it!!

I look drunk here.

Me and Nick.

Me and Mom. Love that white patch on ur left arm!! *nervous laugh*

Tim, Rachel, Jun Yet and I. Love your new shirt Tim hehehe

Ali and Grace. Nick you look great here!! 2nd best photo, after the pseudo butt shaking one!

Me and Grace.

The secretly tall Joann with me.

Yummy!

Evonne and I. Fork and Spoon wth.

Evonne and I again.

Evonne and I again wth. Haven’t I told you we’re like camwhore partners?

Niyi The Extremely Lame trying to kill everyone who’s not lame.

Eeeeeeee I look like a ghost here. I think only Rachel looks normal here.

Rachel, Jun Yet and I.

Me and Evonne yet again.

Joanne, Evonne and I YET AGAIN. HAHAHAHA CLOSE YOUR EYES ALSO CAN SEE US ALREADY!

Guess who??? wth didn’t realise we really took so many photos together that night!

Cheryl and I. Hehehe sorry I mistaken you for Stella the other day but you did sound a bit like her. A BIT. Well, it’s hard to tell just from ‘HELLO TERENCE!’ la.

Niyi, JC, Jo and Blair taking a photo.

Me and Christine.

Part of the group.

Me and Jun Yet again.

Wonder what was Wai Beng looking at? Oh at 9 sharp we rushed out to Dlish to buy the cupcakes LOL So kiasu scared everyone finished buying them. The couple behind us were pissed because there were like 5/6 of us buying almost all the cupcakes there hehehe.

Part of the group at the center court.

In case you were wondering if the person in my blog header is me, yes it is and it was taken from this photo.

So after the party I went back to the hostel to start packing because my flight back to Miri was on the next day. As usual, I was packing very half-heartedly and procrastinationg 70% of the time. Then all of a sudden, Abbas (one of my housemates) knocked on my door and asked me to check the door because he couldn’t open it or something. I was very tired so I just went out without thinking la to check the door. Apparently there was nothing wrong with it.

And then I heard people singing the birthday song!

Yes, I got tricked! It’s only easy to trick me when I let my guards down. I could figure out the whole cooking/marination thing but not this one. Oh well, life’s not perfect, is it?

Ryan, Wennie and Eric bought me a very nice chocolate cake (I love chocolate cakes! Well, most chocolate cakes) but yeah I think I had had enough cake for the day.

Wennie, me and Ryan. Kinda miss those times when we would go out til late at night (quite).

Me and Ryan.

Abbas and I. Sigh my hair looks like a beehive so shut up bout it.

Thanks again everyone for my memorable 18th birthday!

That’s all!

Cya!

XOXO

My heart almost dropped when for a second, I thought I had forgotten to save this post as a draft. Uploading photos onto WordPress is really time consuming and borderline torture so if anyone knows how to upload multiple photos at once and to resize them at one go, PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME!!

A quick shoutout to my dearest friends who are having so much fun at Pulau Perhentian right now. Hope you guys will continue having a blast before you guys reach home and read this (although I am utterly bitter I couldn’t join you guys )!

Soo… I bet a lot of people would be blogging about how fun their holidays have been so far. There’s Yuh Hui and her trip to Lang Tengah, Tim with his retreat to Bukit Tinggi and Nick with his roadtrip to Ipoh, Taiping and Penang (I saw the photos in the photostrip already. I know it’s coming soon ).

Guess what I’m going to blog about?! (Ok please act like you haven’t read the blog post title/ scrolled down for the photos) It’s going to be one messy blog post and I mean it. Yay to kicking Peer Pressure’s butt!

Remember this photo?

Yesh! I’m blogging about the first part of my birthday bash. The part where my friends tried to cook me, that is. They stopped at the marination process, thankfully.

20 April 2008. [Yes I know I'm 2 months late, but this is an improvement from last year (I only blogged about my birthday in December O.o)]

It was no surprise la. Haiyo. Tim’s heavy hints and Jarret’s blurness totally didn’t help AT ALL. Besides, I’ve figured out almost EVERY surprise before so yeah, you guys would have to work harder.

So here’s a conversation between me and Grace the night before:

Me: hey is chiu yi included in the plan 2moro?

Grace: plan? what plan? smile!

Me: The plan to ‘cook’ me

Grace: oh really? how you know ya?

Me: I’m smart? eh if chiu yi’s included i wanna ask her to bring my cam oh

Grace: ok.. u’re smart. but no one said u’ll be cooked also

Me: Oooo i’m not getting cooked?

Grace: no idea! smile!

And then Jarret texted me in the afternoon saying: “I’m bringing my girlfriend along. U dont mind right?”

HELLO?? HOW CAN I NOT KNOW???!

So on my birthday itself, I actually WAITED for a suspicious call/sms. But I got bored so I decided to go out with Wennie and Ryan to Pyramid while waiting lor. And the SMS only came at 5 pm =.=

Nick: Happy birthday!! I’m not late! HAHA! Having a good birthday? What are you doing now?

Me: I’m sooooooo lonely!!!!!!! Wish I was back in Miri. T___________T (I’m good! wakakaka)

Nick: HAHA why so sad? You need company or not? I’m at pj, i can be there in 5 minutes.

Me: (I forgot what I said )

Nick: Okay I’ll pick sarah up. i’m just near her house. She said grace is staying over too. 10 mins then we meet you la k?

Me: (I think I asked where he was. and the reception at Pyramid was really bad so I got his text quite late)

Nick: Church la. I’m leaving Sarah’s house now. Wait r.. You chill

Me: *comes clean* (I think I told him I’m at Pyramid la lol)

Nick: Wth? Why never say earlier? You out with friends is it?

Me: (forgot what i said again hehehehe)

Nick: Really? We’re stuck in a jam. Meet you at pyramid? (YEA RIGHT. THERE’S A JAM IN THE HISTOPATHOLOGY LAB HORRRRRRR)

So in the end JC came to pick me up at Pyramid and the marination began at the Monash open carpark. My initial plan to run back to the hostel to change into my house clothes didn’t work out la. JC came too early

Photo time! I’m sure the photos will do a very good job in explaining what exactly happened. Some of the photos are quite low quality though because I screencapped them from the full video (which you guys will never watch WAKAKAKAKAKA unless requested).

Rachel, Sarah and JC at “Sarah’s house”.

Nick “picking Sarah up.”

Me getting tied using plastic bags stolen from Giant wth. Sigh I love how my friends are so innovative. Who knew Giant plastic bags could be used to tie birthday boys up?!

Dan saying sorry or something. I can’t remember. Can’t believe I was still smiling.

Waiseh. Not bad. Got people shelter me with umbrella some more!

Not for long though. In the video I could hear Grace say “WE WANT HIM TO GET WET.” And JC said “BUT I DON’T WANT HIM TO GET SICK.” Awwwwwww. Love you JC!

Okay in the next photo you’ll know why I was doing that.

I would like to sincerely express my gratitude to Dan for taking this AWESOME photo of me being splashed with water from God-knows-where. That was the best thing to do, Dan! So much better than actually rescuing me. You should do it all the time!

And the marination began.

Ali and the flour. I’ll remember that.

Sarah and the CONDENSED MILK! I’ll remember that too

Grace with the CHOCOLATE RICE. I think I’ll remember that too

I’m still trying to figure out who chucked chilli sauce onto my hair though.

The guy with the red sweater/jacket/jumper. The only person with a red sweater is Jun Yet as far as I’m concerned.. Hmmm..

A total mess.

Someone pouring CONDENSED MILK on my back.

ENOUGH WITH THE CHILLI SAUCE ALREADY! My hair smelt like chilli sauce during the freaking dinner!

This photo’s actually quite artistic. I’m such a brilliant screencapper!

I actually like this photo too. Sigh why am I so photogenic?

Actually this is not bad too la. Again, SIGH WHY AM I SO PHOTOGENIC??!

Being wrapped in kitchen wrap wth. Never seen Ali so happy before!

Second splash. Gah. I’m bored.

Getting untied.

Doing one of those hair flicks. Bad photo

This was Grace’s Facebook profile photo for a while. WTH???????

Damn ugly photo.

Evil people.

My favourite photo actually. Haha. Sorry Sarah.

That’s all for the marination. Birthday dinner post should be up soon.Til then..

Cya!

ps. Now you know why they call medical students nerds. It’s because they don’t know that food is supposed to be eaten.

XOXO

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. List eight (8) random facts about yourself.
3. Tag eight people at the end of this post and list their names.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blogs.

Random Fact #1:

I think ‘Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep’ by Mary Frye is just beautiful. The first time I heard Karen recite it before Lynette sprinkled Ida’s ashes at that baseball field in that moment in Desperate Housewives, I was just blown away. And that’s saying something since I normally don’t even like poems. At first I thought one of the scriptwriters had written it for that scene but apparently, it’s a very famous poem by itself, just that I’ve never heard of it The version I fancy more goes as follows:

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.

Mary Frye

ps. (this is not one of the random facts) Speaking of Desperate Housewives, I have just finished watching the 17th episode of Season 4 and IT FREAKING LEFT ME IN SUSPENSE (almost every episode does, I hate that they’re such geniuses) and I can’t wait for the next episode to be out but I know for a fact that my internet connection’s going to piss me off BIG TIME when it does. It’s already pissing me off right now as I’m uploading photos for this post and it’s either totally slow, or the attempt is totally futile.

Oh! How am I going to survive my holiday without any series? (Damn my hard disk space!) Actually I can la. I’m planning to write a story and there are tons of unread storybooks on top of my box of books lol. So yeah, I’ll be occupied

Random Fact #2:

I think I am the least likely to get jet lag because I’m as energetic as the Energizer Bunny wth. Nola. Actually I’m not that energetic also la but I always like to plan things on the same day and make my day totally full because I want to live my life to the fullest wth. For example the other day when I came back from Kuching, from the ASEAN scholarship interview, I bumped into my BFF, Niyi, Cheryl and Stella (sigh namedropping is tiring) and right away we went on a car ride to nowhere!!! Then BFF parked near some random housing area and everyone (except me, of course) started yelling hysterically singing totally in tune (sorry my conscience won’t let me lie) to the hottest pop songs from the 90′s wth.

Photographic evidence that I was with them

I like this pic

And that day when I was supposed come back to Miri for study break, I managed to squeeze in brunch with BFF and BFF.O2 And last Saturday I managed to meet up with Nisa for lunch before heading off to the airport again. My life is so full! LOL

Random Fact #3:

Pat was complaining that I never put any crazy/goofy/retarded photos of myself (which is untrue), so here’s one.

Taken by Pat. Damn ugly can? Oh well, at least I pulled Dan in wth so evil wakakakakaka

Okla. Since I dug out that photo already I might as well just post some of the photos from our trip to The Curve which I hadn’t posted in the previous post.

Slightly more normal but I hate my hair here.

Pat and Jun Yet.

Random Fact #4:

This is my roommate and soon to be ex-roommate. Meet Hendra.

This is the ONLY photo (I REPEAT: ONLY PHOTO) I have with him so I’m posting it up anyway although the quality is like that of a photo taken 20 years ago and I was wearing the ugliest shirt I have (kidding, Pat. I love the shirt ). My conversation with Hendra is totally limited to ‘Hi’s’ and ‘Have you had dinner/lunch’ because most of the time, we’re both just absorbed with our laptops. But he’s been a good roommate though for putting up with all the noises I made during those late night notes-printing and last minute packing before the break of dawn.

I wonder who my new roommate would be. I hope he’s partially deaf and sleeps with the lights on wth.

Random Fact #5:

Being *quite* tall, I have a tendency to bend slightly when taking photos with other people. It just comes very naturally to me to bend over/down/sideways because I feel that a photo with two persons in it should be a photo of TWO PERSONS and not just a photo of ONE PERSON with ANOTHER PERSON. You get what I mean?

Oh by the way, the other day when I was showing my sister the photos of my fellow Monashians, we happened to come to this photo of me and Joann. And my sister went like: “Hey! This girl’s very tall hor?”

This is the aforementioned photo:

Looks like Joann really is secretly tall like she always tries to convince us

Oh and one of the reasons I haven’t blogged about my birthday dinner is because whenever I look at the photos, I feel like killing myself because my eyes were covered by my damn messy and long hair! WHY DIDN’T ANYONE JUST KIDNAP ME TO GET A HAIRCUT OR SOMETHING THAT TIME???!!

Random Fact #6:

I hate it when my friends try to quantify friendship using material things as the unit. It is really annoying when people measure the level of closeness by the birthday presents they get or by the gifts/souvenirs they receive. It makes me feel as if friendship is an entity – a car running on petrol. And the price just keeps getting higher. So why don’t we just walk alone instead?

Random Fact #7:

I used to think that either Pat or Dan is the worst photographer in the bunch. But lo and behold, I just found out that TIM takes even worse photos! Ok no offence but, I shall let you be the judge.

Most of the photos Pat take don’t stay in the memory card for more than 10 minutes so I can’t find an example (oh wait! You can refer to that retarded photo of me and Dan). But here’s one random photo taken by Dan:

Sigh. My mom (as in Dan) seems to have this obsession with butts :S

And this is the photo Tim took:

WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT TIM???????????????? That’s sooooo not going into the post I’m writing about Italiannies!

Random Fact #8:

I always tiptoe when I go up staircases. It’s a very weird habit, I know.

That’s all.

Cya!

XOXO

Hey guys!

Welcome to my new blog. Well, it’s not exactly new since I imported every post from my old blog so it’s practically the same, just the URL is different. So if you’ve been linking me, please be so kind as to change the URL because I don’t think I’ll be using the blogspot address anymore.

The main reason I finally switched over to WordPress (I’ve signed up since January) is because Blogger’s templates ARE KILLING ME! Plus, I couldn’t change my layout (which explains why it’s that ugly green layout) so I decided to just use one of the default templates here on WordPress. I will change the header as soon as I come up with a new one and so far, I’m fine with the current layout. It’s very neat. And I like neat. LOL. Some of the photos don’t seem to fit though and some got lost in the process. But oh well, I’m too lazy to fix the problem now.

At the moment, I’m still familiarizing myself with blogging using WordPress because it’s quite different (photo uploading is more tedious, sadly). There are more features and all but I think I’ll come around it pretty soon. There are a few features which I think will come in handy and I think you’ll know what I mean when I start using them

That’s all for my welcoming speech wth.

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I was supposed to type this some time ago but I didn’t really get the chance to.

I was back in Miri for the study break and during those late nights, I could always hear my stomach growl like there’s no tomorrow so now I have heard all types of possible sounds in the whole world. My life is complete wth.

I was seriously damn hungry lor but being a sloth, taking time to cook Maggi/make a cup of hot Milo/Chocolate would be out of the question because I’m too lazy to boil water wth and I don’t know how to cook Maggi/make Milo using the microwave oven (someone please teach me!!).

And so… my only choice (other than Kinder Bueno which isn’t filling at all) was…

Hello Panda! Oh how I love thee.

I hogged the whole thing up to my room so I could eat it on my bed wth. By the way I’m really damn lazy one. I do everything on my bed including studying, eating, surfing the net hahahaha no wonder I’m so fat =.=.

(sigh why am I so long-winded?! type so long already but still haven’t made my point)

So my point is, I looooooooooooooove Hello Panda! It’s damn delicious, okay?

And I remember the first time I tasted it was when I was in Primary 2. That was 10 years ago. I remember a friend gave it to me and *poof* I just fell in love. I loved how the chocolate cream encrusted by the crispy layer of biscuit felt slightly cold even when not chilled! I loved how the chocolate cream has just the right level of sweetness and doesn’t taste plastic-y unlike those low quality chocolates. I loved how it’s the perfect bite size and I can stuff tons into my mouth at once I love everything about Hello Pando *swoons in love wth*.

Last time, the person who gave it to me damn kiamsiap one! (I was damn kiamsiap too la. I remember my friends would chase me around school for ONE PIECE of chocolate. I remember how it tasted like. It was cappucino flavoured. Damn sweet one but really heavenly but now cannot find already so sad Sigh I’ve always loved chocolates no wonder I’m so fat wth) She told me it could only be found in Brunei because Brunei has all the imported goods while Malaysia’s trying to market their ‘Buatan Malaysia’ crap (yay WordPress has the strikeout function) goodies.

Then, I found it at a nearby supermarket =.=

Since then the crave over Hello Panda just persisted and over the years, it became my ocassional breakfast.

And I also remember (sigh why my memory only stores such useless info) when I was in Form 4, I would bring it to school and back then Kara, Sha and I would sit down by their tables and eat Hello Panda for breakfast. Back then, we would look at the cartoons printed on the biscuits to see which sport the panda was playing before putting them into our mouths hahahahaha why were we so childish? Now I don’t do it anymore lor. I just stuff them into my mouth like a starving lion wth. With a growling stomach.

Grr.. This part of the post feels very pointless/meaningless/totally random right? Oklah. I think I better stop here then. I think I’ll keep this part for 3 days then I’ll delete it la.

Shh. Don’t tell anyone I stole the cookie from the cookie jar wth

Cya!

ps. It’s easier to leave comments on WordPress so you have every reason to drop me a comment OKAY?

pps. This is why I’ve always asked everyone to comment on the comment box and not the tagboard because now that I’ve changed domain, everything in the tagboard cannot be brought together

XOXO